Message in a mat, 1874.

[Found under: “Nu Hou Kuloko.”]

We have heard that the woman who wove the pawehe mat of Niihau, that being Kalai, was asked by the king to weave a moena pawehe, two of them, with the symbol [kii hoailona] of America and so too of Britain.

(Kuokoa, 5/2/1874, p. 2)

Ua lohe makou, ua kauohaia...

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XIII, Helu 18, Aoao 2. Mei 2, 1874.

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